Filmmaker and Creative Director of the Tallahassee Film Festival. Programming for art house cinemas and film festivals since 2001.
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Challengers 2024
Don't believe the studio's marketing bots. This film is essentially devoid of sex or romance, and frames Zendaya's character as a woman only interested in the competition (whether between men vying for her or an opponent on the tennis court). How young audiences supposedly so progressive can celebrate a woman so vapid, I'm stumped. Then, to top that off, there's the end of the film with its uninspired nouvelle vague freeze frame, that simply says bros before hoes.
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Priscilla 2023
The Misogyny of Sofia Coppola
I want to believe that Sofia Coppola is intentionally burning down her one-trick cinematic pony - the coming-of-age story - with her latest “Priscilla,” but I fear I will be wrong and she'll just make another. “Priscilla” is a story-less, albeit chronological series of vignettes, in which Priscilla Presley is portrayed as a submissive cuck to the apparent focal point of the film which is the rising superstar Elvis, her emotional and quasi-physical abuser. In…
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Freedom's Path 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Why is it that a film is looked down upon in Hollywood if it has a lower budget than most? You’d think in an industry where turning a dollar is tantamount over artistry, that a stellar film such as Freedom’s Path would get more recognition because they did more with so much less. The debut feature by Brett Smith, the film takes its time setting up the unlikely friendship (or at least mutual respect) of William (Gerran Howell) and Kitch…
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Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022
Meh.. Not funny; not scary; it’s target audience: a generation who really acts like these people. These actors have been in so many better roles. What a shame really. The A24 marketing machine is purring.
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